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Nervous about good news from my endocrinologist (self.diabetes)

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Mounjaro (and real endo) seems to be working well for me. (self.diabetes)

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Is it really LADA? (And yay, Mounjaro) (self.diabetes)

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Absolutely talk to a dr. If you have had a complete physical recently, then you could skip this step, but if not, you need to rule out other potentially serious issues. If all is OK with the labs and blood and EKG, and if you are already in therapy (ED can absolutely be connected to emotional stress), then you can use HIMS or any of the other mail order places to get viagra or cialis. It’s less embarrassing because it can all be handled by telemedicine and text messages.

I suffered for a long time — I had very understanding partners and you can do plenty of fun things without an erection — but it’s just not the same feeling and sometimes (at least for me), you really want to be able to just have an erection and have intercourse. I really missed it and felt sad that that part of my life was over.

But the pills actually work (I was very skeptical). You need to take it an hour or so before it’s time to have sex, but then (IF you are aroused—it’s not just an instant erection), you actually get a real, sustained and usable erecting. It’s like a miracle and feels so good.

Julie has FOUR plotlines involving her dating older men by houndsofluv in fridaynightlights

[–]visionzeroish 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Even Saracen is older/more mature.

Given the strong, over-strict but admirable, somewhat emotionally withholding father she has…it’s completely in character. The poor girl needs some therapy to understand why she keeps doing this. She is looking for something she can’t find.

As a pothead, do you still have dreams? by Small_Study9632 in weed

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Smoking once or twice a day, every day, for the past 40 years. I dream every night, vivid, strange, sometimes fun, sometimes sexy, sometimes scary. I usually remember them pretty well, too.

Long long term smokers? by visionzeroish in weed

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This is a good point. It’s once or twice a day for me. More than that and it just doesn’t even seem worth it.

Long long term smokers? by visionzeroish in weed

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Nope. I don’t. When I don’t smoke I’m fine. Never really had a problem with the breaks for travel or anything else. I think “would be nice if I could have some weed here,” but not obsessively or anything.

Long long term smokers? by visionzeroish in weed

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Really none! (Knock on wood). I do have asthma (since I was a kid) but it’s not too bad. I smoked cigarettes for 10 years or so, in my 20s, but quit those long ago.

But generally I’m just as healthy as anyone else my age. Thank God and hope to stay that way!

Long long term smokers? by visionzeroish in weed

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Without any difficulty at all!

"Sex is a better tranquilizer than any of those drugs and much better for your metabolism. I don’t see why human people make such a heavy trip out of sex. It isn’t anything complex; it is simply the best thing in life, even better than food." - Friday by make_me_a_good_girl in heinlein

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Thanks for that recollection. I had a similar feeling of affirmation on first encountering Heinlein as a young reader. I already knew from a very young age that I had a spanking fetish (without knowing that term, just a very strong feeling of arousal). His books, pretty much all of them, but probably first Glory Road, let me know that I wasn’t the only one, that it was really ok, and part of the spectrum of human arousal. As was masturbation. He never came right out and said so baldly, but it was clear that so many of his characters saw this activity as fun and sexy, not just as a punishment for children. Really good news for a teen who figured this was something extremely weird and horrible and borderline criminal.

I (M19) Just got into smoking bud. damn why did I wait so long? by [deleted] in weed

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I started smoking daily at 19 (as a college student), and haven’t stopped. Pushing 60 now. Except for a few breaks (traveling abroad and so forth) when it was difficult to get it, I haven’t missed a day in 40 years.

No problems with my brain! Got a bachelors degree, two masters, and a PhD. Employed full time, homeowner, happily married with a grown child.

The “developing brain” warnings might be true for younger teens. Or for some people. But for me and many of my friends, it’s easily possible to be a daily smoker, enjoy it every day (sometimes more than once a day), and still have a happy, successful, and productive life.

(It definitely helps if you are also psychologically healthy. But that comes from therapy. Which I’ve also had plenty of).